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On Sunday, Aaron Judge made a decision to abstain from violence. The slugger chose to keep his head when everyone else around him, especially Gerrit Cole, was prepared to lose theirs after Alek Manoah drilled him in the fifth inning.
Cole emerged from the dugout with the same reckless abandon of an amateur drinker at two in the morning, eager to hit someone on the street. Judge responded by giving him the Heisman, extending his right hand to signal to the ace and the other Yankees behind him to come to a complete stop.
It was an interesting reaction from a giant whose team faced the possibility of falling to Toronto for four games in a row and losing for the fifteenth time this month. Judge had requested “better energy in the dugout” the previous day, and boy, did Cole provide it—at least until the Yankee calmed him down after hitting him with a sinker that clocked 91 mph in the upper left arm.
Judge had moved toward Manoah with a few irate steps before Andy Fletcher, the plate umpire, steered him toward first base. Judge and Manoah actually came together in a rare summit meeting between plunker and plunkee that ended in gestures of understanding and peace after the DH motioned to his teammates and then reached for the bag.
When asked why, on a day marked by celebration and a sellout stadium, he decided to defuse the situation rather than escalate it of the flammable Paul O’Neill, the judge, responded as follows:
“Knowing the circumstances, the game is close. You and I were both angry at first, but I don’t need anyone else to get thrown out in order for me to get hit. Because of this, I was kind of moving on to the next play, even though I knew Anthony Rizzo had a significant at-bat coming up. Getting a few runs would make me a little [more] content than us fighting and losing a few players.
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Aaron Judge, who was struck by a pitch, orders the Yankees to remain in the dugout.
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Judge had the opportunity to hit Bo particularly hard on Rizzo’s grounder, which resulted in the force at second.
Bichette, opting to perform it in a tidy manner. He refused to allow his personal resentment at being stopped in the middle of his home run “drought” to drive him to act foolishly in an attempt to prove whatever.
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Judge is among the greats, and they all know that mental toughness doesn’t show through punching someone or leaping over the dugout rail. Though it may have been the best heavyweight match at Yankee Stadium since Muhammad Ali vs. Ken Norton, the bout between the 6’7, 282-pound Judge and the 6’6″, 285-pound Manoah said nothing about the home team’s
